Ticket holder and punch



Oct. 16, 1951 O c, E N 2,571,875

TICKET HOLDER AND PUNCH Filed Aug. 2, 1947 I N VEN TOR.

Patented Oct. 16, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,571,875 TICKETHOLDER AND PUNCH Otto C. Heinemann, Milwaukee, Wis.

Application August 2, 1947, Serial No. 765,725

2 Claims. 1

The invention relates to ticket punches and more particularly to punchesfor punching tickets used in restaurants and lunch rooms to show theamounts due from the customer.

In the usual ticket punches, the tickets are bound together by wiringthe stub portions of the tickets together, and in using the punch theticket has to be torn off of the stub before punching it. Frequently,where the operator is in a hurry portions of the ticket itself are tornoif in removing it from the stub so that the ticket has to be thrownaway. One object of this invention is to provide a ticket punch in whichthe tickets do not have stubs and are not wired together but areseparate and stacked in a container forming the handle of the punch fromwhich they are readily withdrawn as needed, thus eliminating the cost ofwiring the tickets together, the extra paper forming the stub, and thewastage of tickets in being torn while removing them from the stub whichare items of considerable expense.

A further object of the invention is to provide a ticket punchingmechanism so constructed and arranged that the clippings from thepunching operation are received within the punch, thus preventing theclippings from falling into food, or on tables or on the floor as occurswith the usual punches.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter setforth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion'hereof.

In the drawings;

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a ticket punch embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation view of the punch;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the punching mechanism;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4 showing cer--- tain modifications;

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2; i

Fig. '7 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 8 designates generally a sheetmetal casing having a bottom wall 9, side walls It, front wall II, andback wall l2.

A cover member l3 having side walls I4 is hingedly secured at IE to thetop of the back wall 12 and has yieldable extensions 16 which havepunched in projections 11 to engage in recesses or holes l8 in the sidewalls ID to hold said cover in a closed position. The casing 8 with itscover I3 thus forms a container for receiving a stack of separatestubless tickets l9 which are yieldingly urged upwardly toward the coverby the wings of a flat leaf spring 20 secured intermediate its ends by arivet 2| to the bottom wall of the casing. Thus by providing a containerfor receiving separate tickets the usual wired stub tickets with theirextra cost and wastage previously referred to are eliminated. It will benoted that the cover i3 is of less length than the length of thetickets, so that the tickets are readily removable, one at a time, fromthe opening 22 thus provided.

The ticket container formed as above described forms the handle for thepunch, and while any suitable punching mechanism may be mounted on thecasing at one end of this container, I prefer to use the novel punchingmechanism herein shown and which includes a die member 23 and a punch 24movable relative to each. other so as to punch out a V-shaped notch 53from the sides or ends of the tickets l9.

Referring to Figs. 3, 4, and 6, a U-shaped or channeled sheet metalmember 25 is mounted to lit in the forward end of the casing 8 with itsside flanges 26 abuttin the sides In of the casing and its web 2!secured to the bottom of said casing by rivets 28. Part of the Web 21 isformed as a tongue 29 bent up to form a centering support for a coiledspring 30. The back edges 3| of the flanges 23 form stops for theforward ends of the tickets IS. The front edge 32 of said flanges isdisposed in a vertical plane alined with the squared front edges 33 0fthe side walls of the casing from which the edges 34 of said side wallsincline downwardly to the top of the front wall ll of the casing. Thetop edge portions 35 of the flanges 26 are inclined downwardly towardthe front of the casing, to form stop shoulders limiting the downwardswinging movement of the punch 24.

The punch 24 includes a hardened steel knife 36 whose shank abuts aspacer block 31 which with the knife is secured to a main shank oroperating member 38 by rivets 39.

The operating member 38 is of sheet metal formed to provide front pivotmountings or eyes 40, a knife abutment 4|, and side flanges 42 providedwith ears 43 having alined openings 44 which in assembled position alinewith openings 45 and 46 in the side walls of the casing and the flanges26 of the member 25 to receive pivot pins 4'! whereby the back end ofthe punch or knife member is pivotally mounted in the casing 8, so

that it may be swung downwardly, by pressure of the operators thumb uponthe member 38, from the position shown in Fig. 2 to a position in whichthe flanges 42 abut the inclined edges 33 of the member 25.

The die member 23 is a hardened sheet metal plate having a notch 48therein through which V-shaped knife 36 is adapted to pass with ashearing out upon the ticket placed between said knife 'iand xdiefi Theedge of the member 23- in whiclr'thenotch is formed isprovided w-ithpivot mountings or eyes 49 alineable with the eyes 40 to receive a pivotpin 50. The front end of plate 23 is provided with a rearwardlyprojectinghook which is slidably mounted in a slot 52'iiithe front wallH and with the pins. ,ands50 :holds the punch parts in assembledrelationwith the casing 8.

The spring so mounted on the tongue 29;bears against the undersideof theknife or punch mem- -t ber and-normallyacts to swing this memberrelative to the die memben23 to a position in'which the-knife 36 isabove the notch 48 asshown in Fig. 3. -With the parts in this position,the operator while holding. the handle portion of the casing with onehand inserts aside edge of a ticket [9 to be punchedbetween the openedpunch parts, andthen with the thumb of the hand holding the punch,presses down on the member 38 with the result that the knifeiafi isswung downwardly into the notch 48 and incloin'g so cuts a V-shapednotch 53 in the ticket at the selected valuation number appearing onsaid ticket, this downwardmovement of the knife also causing a forwardsliding movement of the die member 23 relative to the casing. Theclipped portion ofthe ticket [9 on its severance from the ticket dropsdown into the compartment 54 provided by the casing at its forward end,so that clippings are prevented from falling into food other platemember5'9 by rivetsffifi which last named plate hasflanged sidesfilhaving ears 62 provided with openings'63 which as in the first describedconstruction aline with the openings 45 and 64 in the side walls of thecasing and the member25, respectively, to receive the pivot pins 41.This knife structure'when connected by the pivot pin 50 passing throughthe eyes 51 and the eyes 49 of the die member 23 functions in the samemanner as the first described knife member to sever a notch from theticket. The first described knife member is preferred as it does notrequire the use of as much hardened steel as is required by the plate56.

I desire it to be understood that this invention is not to be limited toany particular form or arrangement of parts except in so far as suchlimitations;arerincluded in the claims.

-What I claim as my -invention is:

1. In a ticket punch of the character described,

, the combination of an elongated container forming the handle of thepunch and adapted to hold a series of separate stubless tickets, saidconpunch being mounted in the opposite end of the container and having apart forming a stop ad- ,.-;jacentsaid opening to limit the endwise.movement of said tickets in said container.

2. The structure as defined in claim 1 in'which the punch comprises adiemember and a punch membernormally forming a portion of the top ofthecontainer and pivotally connected together intermediate the ends ofsaid top, said die memher having an opening therethrough for receivingthe punch and being mounted for swinging and sliding movement on thefront end of said container, said punch member pivotally supported onthe sides of said container, means for biasing said die and punchmembers to a normal ticket receiving position. said members beingoperable to punch the ticket by pressure exerted on the top of one ofsaid members.

"OTTO C."I-IEINEMANN.

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